The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-03-30

on the arrival of Portuguese and Japa-
nese immigrants, and go down to take
charge. l cannot say whether Mr.. Cooke
availed himself of the permission l spoke
of. 1 think it was the case when Captain
Tierney was in charge. Mr.. Cooke was
agent of the vessel The immigrants were
brought here for the Planters Labor and
Supply Company. They came under the
auspices of the Board of immigration,
but were assigned and distributed by the
Planters Labor and Supply Company.
My letter was in reply to both these letters
so far as l can remember. / cannot state
definitely that l did reply to both. L do
not know why Mr. Cooke wrote the second
letter, which is similar in purport to the
first one. l know of no communication
passing between Mr.. Cooke and any officer
of the Board of Immigration other than
what appears in the letters. Mr.. Cooke
told me that he had seen Mr. Gibson,
President of the Board, between writing
the first and second letters, and that he
(GibsOn) had said it was all right. The
Allie Rowe arrived on a Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Cooke teIephoi1ed to my house about 9
" NlOCh- W GIlC 1uSSSdSS
1t was that the Allie Rowe had arrived
and that L was wanted at Mr.. Cookies of
fee next morning between and 8 O'Clock.
L went there at about half-past 8 on Mon
day and saw the Secretary OF the COM
pany and Captain Phillips. 1 think Mr..
Turrill may have said that the immigrants
were on board the Allie Rowe and that
they were anxious to get them off that
afternoon. l may have asked Captain
Phillips how many people he had. /
think he said about 125 altogether-1O5
men. He asked if 1 would like to go on
board and l said "No." 1t is very likely
l said, Il will have nothing to do with
this, it is a private venture" when the
Captain asked me to go on board. | said
so through the telephone to Mr.. Cooke.
l said when | left the office that if Mr..
Cooke wanted me he could telephone. He
did so, and asked me if l was an agent to
take acknowledgements to labor contracts.
answered mo" He then said he would
like to get the immigrants ashore from the
Allie Rowe. [ said the Board of Immigra-
ton had nothing to do with it; it was a
private enterprise. He did not ask me to
come down and attend to the distribution
of the immigrants.
Ke-examned by the Attorney General:
l said it was a private enterprise of my
authority. 1 was not instructed to say so.
Did not notify the President or the Board
itself. Did not consider it necessary.
Spoke to Mr.. Hassinger about 1t. l said
it was private enterprise because no au-
thOrity had been granted for any vessel to
go down there and collect immigrants. /
do not know of any letter having been re-
ceived from Mr.. Cooke or anyone else ask
ing permission for the immigrants to land.
If such a letter had been received it would
be on file. l did not go to the Pacific Nav
igatiOn Company's Office officially, as of
ficially [ had nothing to do with the case
None of these immigrants were landed at
the place set apart for that purpose by the
Board of immigration. Since L have
been Secretary of the Board all immigrants
have been landed there, except in one
case when they came under the auspices
of the Government for the Planters La
Dor and Supply Company and were dis
tributed by the company without going to
the depot.
A. f. Cooke examined by :the AttOr-
ney General: Recollect the arrival of the
Allie Rowe on March 18th. She had two
cabin passengers, white men, and 125 sec
Ond-class passengers, darkssskinned men
and women. They were from the New
Hebrides. The latter were put on board
the interisland steamers as plantation la
OOrers. They went under contract. An
took place at this point as to
whether evidence regarding the contract
was admissible. The Attorney General
that he had right to show
that these people came here as immigrants
under contract and could not be treated as
passengers. Those making the
should be known, and where the
went to and all about them.
There should be no desire to screen any
,ne. Mr.. Thurstop said there was no
such desire. The contract had nothing to
whether they were landed in accordance
With law Everything had been conducted
lbove-board on their side. The Court de-
ided to receive the evidenced
Examination resumed: These people |
we're shipped--25 for Haiku Sugar Conn
any, 20 for Paia Plantation, II to Lihue !
Plantation, so for Koloa Sugar Company, |
nd 13 for Kekaha Mill Company. The |
were signed on board the Allie
lowe. 1 was not there. Mr.. Gulick took |
ne Acknowledgements. The agents of the
limitations attended to the shipping of
lem-Mr. James Castle for Haiku and
ala, and Mr.. Lose for Hackfeld q Co. for
ne others I was anxious to get the peO-
lie away as soon as possible to save ex-
ense Forty-fve of them went away on
-onday afternoon. Letters above printed
anded witness. The first application
as refused. 1 made another application,
the result of a conversation 1 had with
r. Gibson, President of the Board of I'M
igration. He promised me letter to the
aptain, so that in case any question
light arise as to his authority he could
ow that he was recognized by the Gov
nment On the strength of that promise
made the contract. That accounts for
e second letter. l was fully of the i'm
ession that the letter of per-
ission would come. l waited a
10 6avS and then diSDatched the |